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Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?Tamora Pierce
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Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.Tamora Pierce
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And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.Tamora Pierce
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All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people.Tamora Pierce